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Important Network Commands, Error Messages and Procedures

To learn how to troubleshoot a network issue, you should understand at least a list of network commands and procedures. In this article I present a list of most important network commands which will help you to figure out the exact reason and location of the network issue. I promise, after reading this article you won't need another one's opinion when you face a normal network connectivity issues at your home or small office network. I start this article with the introduction of very basic network command ping to advance network connectivity troubleshooting steps.

List of Most Common Network Commands

Network Command: Ping

Ping command is used to check connectivity between your computer and any other network device (with an IP address) in your network.

Eg: Ping (IP Address of the device like , 192.168.1.43 )

You can check the connectivity between your computer and any other device connected to Internet. For example see the command below.

Till now we have seen the important procedures to fix common network connectivity issues. Now it is the time to learn common network error messages and error codes. Here you see a list of our tutorials to troubleshoot and fix most common network error messages and error codes.